Packing device



(No Model.)

PACKING DEVICE.

Patented Ap1 .22,1890.

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GEORGE B. GARRISON, OF JORDAN, NEIV YORK.

PACKING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,178, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed June 3, 1889- Serial No. 313,015- (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. GARRISON, of Jordan, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Packing Devices, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices employed for packing bedstead side rails and analogous articles to be stored or transported, which devices are designed to hold said articles a safe distance apart to prevent their chafing and marring each other. Although packing devices of various forms have been resorted to for the aforesaid purpose, yet they have generally failed to withstand the strain they are subjected to during the transportation of the bedstead-rails, and in consequence thereof. the said packing devices became loosened and the said rails were marred by the contact of their adjacent sides.

The object of this invention is to provide a packing device which shall be simple, inexpensive, and yet convenient and perfectly secure in its operation; and to that end the invention consists, essentially, in the combina tion, with the rails and hooks or analogous rail-fasteners projecting from the ends thereof, of blocks interposed between the said railfastencrs of corresponding ends of the rails, and binders connected to the rail-fasteners and intervening blocks and fastening said parts together, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of two end portions of bedstead side rails provided with my improved packing devices. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end View. Fig. 4 is a detached side view of a bedstead-fastener constructed for the application of my improved packing device, and Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively end,

and side views of modifications of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

R R represent the two side rails of a bedstead, said rails being provided at their ends with rigid projections h h, by which they are fastened to the posts of the bedstead, said fastening devices being here represented in the form of flat metal hooks. In packing the rails R R for storing or shipping they are placed side by side with the finished sides facing each other, and in order to retain them a proper distance apart to prevent. them from marring each other I interpose between the projections or hooks h h blocks 1) b of the requisite thickness, and secure said blocks in their positions by a suitable binder c, which I preferably fasten to the hooks h h by providing the latter with perforations a a, and the blocks 1) Z) also with perforations coinciding with those of the hooks, and passing the bindersuch as a bolt 0' or a wire c-through said perforations and bending the ends of the wire at right angles against the outer sides of the hooks.

Instead of boring a hole through the block b, a groove may be cut transversely in the outer face of the block and the binder or wire 0 made to lie in said groove, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings.

IIaving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 7 Patent, is

1. The combination, with the rails R Rand hooks h 71., projecting from the ends thereof, of the blocks 1) Z), interposed between the hooks of corresponding ends of the rails, and binders connected to the hooks and intervening blocks and fastening said parts together, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the rails R R, of the hooks h 72., provided with perforations a a, the blocks 1) b, interposed between the hooks of the two rails, and the binders c c, passing through the perforations a a and tying the blocks in their positions, as set forth and shown.

3. The combination, with the rails R R, of the hooks h h, provided with perforations a. a, the blocks Z) I), interposed between the hooks of the two rails and provided with perforations coinciding with those of thehooks, and the wires 0 c, passing through the perforations of the hooks and blocks and fastened to said hooks, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 31st day of May, 1889.

GEORGE B. GARRISON. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

O. L. BENDIXON, O. H. DUELL. 

